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Washington Elementary teacher Holly Smith was awarded a $1,000 FPEF Grant to purchase Science Big Books for Kindergarten readers.
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FHS Wind Ensemble performs Fantasy on Prospect!This is exciting! Enjoy listening to the Fayetteville High School Wind Ensemble perform Fantasy on Prospect... >more |
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2011 A.P.P.L.E. Award WinnerThe Fayetteville Public Education Foundation was pleased to announce Kent Starr as the 2011 A.P.P.L.E. Award winner at the 2011 Celebration of Excellence in April... >more |
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Foundation Accepts Check from the Cow Paddy Run 2011 Board member Lisa Devine and Executive Director Holly Johnson accept a check from the 2011 Gulley Park Cow Paddy Run from Race Directors Max Mahler and Ben Putman... >more |
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Foundation Funds $18,750 to Establish District ProgramThe Fayetteville Schools String Program has grown from 20 students last year to 90 students as a result of the FPEF grants. >more |
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OAK Foundation/66 Credit Union donate $20,000 to Leader in Me Program at WashingtonThe Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the Leader in Me Program for Washington Elem. >more |
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Walton Family Foundation provides $2,000 to FoundationPictured is Patrick Curry of WACO Title making the presentation to director Treva Hamilton at the Foundation office. >more |
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Ozark Natural Foods comes on as sponsor and donor to FPEFAmber Secrest, with Ozark Natural Foods, presented FPEF director Treva Hamilton with a $500 donation check to help with our teacher grants. >more |
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2010 A.P.P.L.E. Award WinnerVice President Board Member Greg Lee presents Lisa Lashley Higgins with the 2010 A.P.P.L.E Award (A Patron Providing Leadership by Example) at our annual Celebration of Excellence... >more |
Fayetteville High School Wind Ensemble performs Fantasy on Prospect!
This is exciting! Enjoy listening to the Fayetteville High School Wind Ensemble perform Fantasy on Prospect. This piece was commissioned through funds provided by the FPEF Simkins Family Band Grant and was written in memory of R.W. Willis, who served FHS as the band director and assistant principal from 1941 to 1971. Fantasy on Prospect will premiere at Carnegie Hall in New York City on November 22nd at 8:00 p.m. Locally, you can hear the band perform it live at a Pre Carnegie Hall concert at Springdale High School on November 15th at 7:00 p.m.
Click here to listen to the recording of the FHS Wind Ensemble!
Kent Starr Wins 2011 A.P.P.L.E. Award
A.P.P.L.E. Award winner Kent Starr with President-Elect Greg Lee
The Fayetteville Public Education Foundation was pleased to announce Kent Starr as the 2011 A.P.P.L.E. Award winner at the 2011 Celebration of Excellence in April!
The A.P.P.L.E. award, A Patron Providing Leadership by Example, gives recognition to those who have gone above and beyond in supporting the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation and its mission to provide resources, programs and opportunities for our students that would not be available through the normal budget. It emphasizes the responsibility of business leaders to help provide a better future for our community and our children through support of the public schools.
As a 1978 Fayetteville High School alumnus, Kent has supported the Foundation with contribution to the Fayetteville Schools Hall of Honor and other events for the past 12 years. In addition to the in-kind donations through his business, the Starr family has also provided continued monetary support through the Starr Foundation.
Kent Starr’s business, Liquor World was nominated by the Market Watch Board of Editors for the 2010 Leaders Award recognizing it as one of the outstanding retail leaders in the United States. The success of his business has allowed him the generosity of supporting public schools not only in Fayetteville, but in Springdale and Prairie Grove as well
Foundation Accepts Check from the Cow Paddy Run 2011
Photo courtesy of Ironside Photography
Above: Board member Lisa Devine and Executive Director Holly Johnson accept a check from the 2011 Gulley Park Cow Paddy Run from Race Directors Max Mahler and Ben Putman.
Our thanks to Max and Ben for selecting the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation as the race beneficiary!
Foundation Funds $18,750 to Establish District Strings Program
Students from the Fayetteville Schools String Program are featured in a performance on the U of A Campus.
The Fayetteville Schools String Program has grown from 20 students last year to 90 students as a result of the FPEF grant funded to promote the program. A Holiday Concert given on December 2, 2010, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall on the University of Arkansas campus included all students participating. The success of the program was demonstrated by a “standing room only” crowd!
Thanks to the University Preparatory Orchestra for additional instruction time to help support the students until they have full programs in their schools.
OAK Foundation and 66 Credit Union donate $20,000 in funds to initiate the Leader in Me Program at Washington Elementary
Treva Hamilton accepts $15,000 from Mark Wilbern of the OAK Foundation; Steve Clark accepts $10,000 from Aubrey Carrington of the 66 Credit Union.
The Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the Leader in Me Program for Washington Elementary School through a gift by the OAK Foundation and 66 Credit Union. Based on the 7 Highly Effective Habits by Steven Covey, Washington Elementary will be a pilot project for training teachers to implement the program, the funds will be distributed by both the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation and the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce.
Walton Family Foundation provides $2,000 to Foundation
Pictured Left to Right: Patrick Curry of WACO Title, and Treva Hamilton of FPEF.
Patrick Curry of WACO Title, representing the Walton Foundation, currently made a presentation to Fayetteville Public Education Foundation Director Treva Hamilton, at the Foundation office. The gracious $2,000 donation will go towards helping students in Fayetteville Public Schools. Thank you!
Ozark Natural Foods comes on as sponsor and donor to FPEF grants
Pictured Left to Right: Amber Secrest of Ozark Natural Foods, and Treva Hamilton of FPEF.
Amber Secrest, with Ozark Natural Foods, recently presented Fayetteville Public Education Foundation director Treva Hamilton a $500 donation check to help with our teacher grants. Ozark Natural Foods recently came on as a Hall of Honor sponsor as well. Thank you!
Lisa Lashley Higgins Wins 2010 A.P.P.L.E. Award
Board VP Greg Lee presents Lisa Lashley Higgins with our 2010 A.P.P.L.E. Award.
The Fayetteville Public Education Foundation has created an award to recognize those in the business community that have provided support to the Fayetteville Public Schools through their contributions to the Foundation. The A.P.P.L.E. Award recognizes A Patron Providing Leadership by Example.
Lisa Lashley Higgins, C.P.A. has led by example in her service, generosity and continued yearly commitment to support not only the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation, but the 8500 students in our schools and the families that live in our community.
Lisa has supported the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation for many years not only with personal and professional contributions, but has served without compensation by keeping our accounting records, distributing our financial reports for board meetings, and overseeing our audits. She has maintained this level of service both on and off the board. She previously served as treasurer during her 2002-2008 board tenure. Other service to the Fayetteville Public Schools has been through her involvement with the FHS Athletic Booster Clubs. Other community involvement has included her service as treasurer of the First United Presbyterian Church in Fayetteville.
Wal-Mart Awards FPEF $69,350 Grant for FPS Summer Leap Ahead Literacy Intervention Program
Pictured L to R: Linda Auman, Chief Academic Officer for the Fayetteville Public Schools, Karen Parker, Wal-Mart Corporate Giving, Bruce Armstrong, FPEF Board President, Treva Hamilton, FPEF Executive Director, David Russell and Adam Arroyos, FPEF Board Members.
Leap Ahead is a literacy intervention program for K-2 students that is being developed by Fayetteville educators to increase the literacy levels of students and to decrease the growing number of dropouts. The program begins with three weeks of intensive literacy intervention in the summer and continues with ongoing services throughout the school year. Students will participate in intensive, research-based literacy interventions as well community-based learning to build content and background knowledge. Between July 12 and July 29, one hundred fifty students will benefit from this program and the generosity of the Wal-Mart Foundation’s gift. They will attend the program Monday through Thursday, 8:30 – 3:00 p.m. at Owl Creek Elementary.
Intensive research-based reading interventions will be incorporated into the individualized intervention plans for each student that attends the Leap Ahead program. Lexia Reading, a computerized reading program that provides phonics instruction and gives students individualized, independent practice in basic reading skills, will be incorporated into the intervention rotation for identified students. The What Works Clearinghouse has reviewed the research and Lexia and has found that the program has potentially positive effects on student achievement in the area of reading. After the initial purchase of the Lexia program, Fayetteville Schools will be able to provide continued access to Leap Ahead students in their home schools throughout the coming years as long as the need persists. Lexia also provides intervention activities for classroom teachers matched to individual student need using the data on student progress through the program.
Bank of America Donates $2,500 Math Grant
Bank of America representatives present a check to help Fayetteville Public Schools.
Philip Whitehead and Yvonne Prater of Bank of America join Director Treva Hamilton to make a check presentation which helps support the purchase of math manipulatives used by Leverett teacher Adrienne Seeger and her students. Materials were made available to the school through a $7,600 grant from the Fayetteville Public Education Foundation which included the $2,500 donation from Bank of America.
Blair Author Series Hosts Shankar Vedantam in Partnership with U of A Journalism Department
FHS Advanced Placement Psychology students enjoyed a presentation on Shankar Vedantam's book, The Hidden Brain
Shankar Vedantam is a national correspondent and columnist for The Washington Post and a 2009-2010 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Special thanks to professor Gerald Jordan for his help in securing the visit and to the FHS PTA for providing books for the students to preview prior to the author visit. AP Psychology teachers Jessica Phelan & Neil Norberg facilitated the presentation.
Thank you also to Jim Blair for the vision and financial endowment which enables the foundation to enrich our students education by exposing them to authors of national caliber, such as Shankar Vedantam.